This week was another challenging week
of working aboard the Roseway. I learned a lot from working with all of the smart
hard working crew on board. One of my favorite things I’ve found while working
on the Roseway is how quick and smart everyone is at fixing things. For example,
Captain Tom was using a planer to take up some of the paint off of the deck. Unfortunately,
he caught the cord in the planer, and got it stuck, so he had to cut it. Not
even five minutes after the cord was caught, Captain Tom already had it spliced
and back in action.
Another time, I was working on
sanding the bulwarks of the boat, and was using a combination of a five inch orbital
sander, and a mini triangle sander. The triangle sander allowed me to get at
the corners and edges a bit better. Unfortunately there were very few 60 grit
pads for the triangle sander, so I told Captain that we needed more. Another
crew member named Richie chimed in saying “You don’t need to get more pads,
just cut the five inch orbital pads to fit the sander.” It seemed so obvious
after he said it that I could just fashion my own pads out of the ones we
already have. It’s this cleverness that often comes out of necessity that I’ve
really come to admire in the people I’ve been working with.
Carl Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I am gla dthat you can spend time on Roseway and see it from a different point of view....getting to know what hard work is is also a great thing!
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